BREXITEER Peter Bone slammed the European Union over Brexit delays saying Britain should quit the Brussels bloc without a deal and it will come “rushing back”.

The Tory MP said if the European Union can’t accept terms to progress to phase two of the Brexit talks, the UK should ignore the multi-billion pound divorce bill and “walk away”.

Brussels has today told Theresa May she has until midnight on Sunday to come up with a workable Brexit deal or EU leaders will not be able to open trade talks at next week’s summit.

Speaking on Daily Politics, on the BBC, Mr Bone said Britain would need to inform industry immediately that the UK would fall on World Trade Organisation rules.

Asked what Britain should do if there was no progress in the Brexit negotiations on the three criteria laid out by the EU to progress to phase two – EU citizens’ rights in the UK, the Brexit divorce settlement and the Irish border – Mr Bone replied Theresa May should “walk away”.

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Peter Bone said Theresa May should quit Brexit talks and the EU would come "rushing back"

Within a few days I think the European Union will be rushing back to talk to us

Peter Bone

He said: “That is the correct question because if progress can’t be made, the responsible situation is to say ‘right, we obviously can’t do a deal, we have to give our industry enough time to prepare’.

“So, yes, walk away, tell industry that we’re going to come out on March 29, 2019 on WTO rules and therefore you can prepare for that.

“We won’t, by the way, pay billions of pounds to the European Union, so within a few days I think the European Union will be rushing back to talk to us.”

The EU Commission has insisted briefings by a senior official that Jean-Claude Juncker is prepared to extend the fraught negotiating process into next week are “not correct”.